2016年8月20日星期六

Open Forum – Innovators meets Entrepreneurs

The
Open Forum named “From Digital Leadership to Re-Industrialization: Innovators
meets Entrepreneurs” organized by Department of Computing, The Hong Kong
Polytechnic University on 20th August 2016.
The City University of Hong Kong Engineering Doctorate Society (CityU
EngD Society) was one of supporting organization. This open forum aimed to invite speakers from
the government, industry and academic to discuss the trend, direction,
experience and cases on how digital leaders, innovators and entrepreneurs
contributed toward the processes of re-industrialization. In the beginning, Dr. Walter Fung as forum
coordinator introduced the forum arrangement and topics.

Then
all guest speakers were took a photo for memory.

Prof.
Cao Jiannong (Chair Professor and Head, Department of Computing, PolyU) gave a
welcome speech. Then he introduced their digital leadership program. He said we were in the digital ecosystem
including big data, cloud computing, AI, etc. For instance, they promoted
Smart-Ageing (or Active-Ageing) in which not only focused on health but also
mental and social impacts.

Previous
companies from CityU led by Prof. Michael Yang included Multigene Diagnostics
Ltd., Genetel Pharmaceutical Ltd; led by Prof. Cheng Shuk Han included
Vitargent (International) Biotechnology.
For CUHK, Arbele and Xcelom led by Prof. Dennis Lo. Then Dr.
Liu introduced Hong Kong X-Tech Start-Up Foundation which established on 16
July 2016.

Dr.
Liu said the discovery process of the future would begin with an understanding
of disease at the molecular level. So
that molecular diagnostics and other related technologies were very important. Finally, he pointed out the future biotech
trend would be more Personalized, Predictable and Preventive Medicine (3Ps).

Firstly,
he explained the types of innovation in China could be separated into “Technology”,
“Cost”, “Proces”, “Application”, “Supply Chain”, “Product”, “Business Model”
and “Non-customer”. The first example
for technology innovation was Mozihao which was the first quantum satellite. The last example was “Non-customer” that mean
to change from non-customer to customer.

Then
Mr. Lau discussed some factors could help innovations such as Ideas and
Resource (including Money, Skill Labour / Knowledge, Place, Time, Network /
Eco-system, and Government Policy / Support).
Finally, he observed Chinese Innovation focused on practical way such as
problem solving, cost-performance, functional, small improvement, reverse
engineering, etc. Finally, he tried to
any the topic question. He said China
and Shenzhen were very good in network and ecosystem. Hong Kong companies could join in this network
and ecosystem, so as to let Hong Kong growth faster.

Dr.
David Chung (Under Secretary for Innovation and Technology, ITB) and his
briefed the policy and direction of Innovation and Technology Bureau. Firstly, David mentioned the aims of the
development of local innovation and technology below.

Then
he introduced the role and focus of the Government that to be both Connector
and Facilitator, but not a Player.
Therefore, they focused to create an ecosystem for I&T development. During he analyzed our strengths and
opportunities, he mentioned there was about 1600 I&T start-ups in Hong Kong
in 2015 which increased 50% compared to 2014.
Moreover, growth of Hong Kong’s start-up ecosystem was ranked Number 5 globally
in 2015! However, we also faced many
challenges such as 90% SMEs in Hong Kong with relative low investment in
R&D and lack of manufacturing base.

After
that David briefed some funding program they initiated for University and
Industries in the following slide.

Lastly,
he told us the main drive was “Re-industrialization”. We needed to develop high value-added
industries and manufacturing processes in Robotics, Smart City and Healthy Ageing.In order to attract high value-added manufacturing
industries, the following activities were being done.

The
forth speaker was Dr. Bryan Wong (Executive Director, LTBL Co., Ltd.) and his presentation
title was “Transformational Global eBusiness via Social Media”. Firstly, he
pointed out some cases for demonetization such as Newspapers, IDD, SMS, Maps,
Torch, GPS, and Camera … etc. He added that transformation could be anyone,
anywhere and anytime and they were so suddenly.

He
briefed 5 Transformation and summarized as below:

i)Demonetization (e.g. Freemium)

ii)Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime (e.g. Apps & Social Media)

iii)Sharing Economy (e.g. Uber, Alibaba, Airbnb, Facebook, etc.)

iv)Legal Uncertain (e.g. Uber)

v)Disruption (e.g. skype, Netflix, Uber and Dreamtrips)

Then
he briefed the business model of such transformation through social media.

After
that he described mobile social media.
He said mobile as our organs and social media was un-detachable. 3S stands for Social, Sharing and
Sentimental. Key Opinion Leaders (KOL)
was focused on user experience. He also
mentioned the changes of Advertising media from Traditional Advertising to
Social Media Targeted Advertising and finally to Social Media Soft
Marketing.

Finally,
he told us the successful Social Media Marketers were “Impressive Personal
Branding”, “Educational”, “Story Telling”, “Image Director”, “KOL” and “Influential
Entrepreneur”. Lastly, he quoted Ohmae
Kenichi (大前研一) book
named “One Man Ecomony” to explain about Social Media Ecosystem.

During
the break, I needed to support Ir. Dr. Hon Lo Wai-kwok (LegCo Member
(Engineering)) Election Gathering. It was pity that I missing the following
topics.

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